Cracks appear in Obama foreign policy team

[Chris]

Cracks appear in Obama foreign policy team

As Secretary of State-pick Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.N. envoy-choice Susan Rice separately visited the diplomatic agency's headquarters in Washington's Foggy Bottom neighborhood, persons familiar with the transition said that Rice wants to install her own transition team inside the department.

Such a move by an incoming U.N. ambassador is rare, if not unprecedented, because the job is based at the United Nations in New York, where Rice already has a small transition staff, the sources familiar with the incoming administration.

The officials could not say if Clinton's team had formally objected to Rice's plan, or even if Rice would be able to install a separate transition team inside the State Department. But they noted that dueling transition teams could complicate the handover by blurring lines of authority.

Technically, the job of U.N. envoy falls under the authority of the secretary of state, although some previous U.N. ambassadors have held cabinet rank. The last U.N. ambassador to be part of the president's cabinet was Richard Holbrooke, who had a famously icy relationship with then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright during the Clinton administration.

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[DumbAss Tanker]

The last U.N. ambassador to be part of the president's cabinet was Richard Holbrooke, who had a famously icy relationship with then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright during the Clinton administration.

Gee, who could have possibly foreseen that an egomaniacal subject-matter expert (in his own eyes at least) would have a problem working for a politically-connected dithering amateur?

  

[debk]

Obama mentioned something about wanting to be surrounded by strong personalities.....


 

[TheSarge]

[Chris_]

Cracks appear in Obama foreign policy team

Why do I find that headline about the two women in the new fuhrer's team extremely funny?

[debk]

Why do I find that headline about the two women in the new fuhrer's team extremely funny?

 


had to read it twice before I gotit.......

[Eupher]

 


had to read it twice before I gotit.......

 

That cracked me up.

Doya think Hillary has been through menopause yet? 

[Crazy Horse]

Some one is always the butt of a joke